
On the Rhodes Again:
An ardent environmentalist and a member of several organizations
seeking to protect forests and wildlife refuges, Emory senior
John A. Henderson is one of thirty-two American Rhodes Scholars
for 2003, among ninety selected worldwide.


Change Agents Unite:There is no greater change agent or role
model than Robert Redford, said fashion designer and
philanthropist Kenneth Cole 76C, introducing the Academy-Award-winning
actor and director as keynote speaker of the 2003 Kenneth
Cole Leadership Forum.


Every
brick we lay . . . :
As
a cancer survivor, Emory senior and Kenneth Cole Fellow Christopher
M. Richardson understands how people in terrible situations
can feel demoralized and believe their problems to be insurmountable.


Many Voices:On
a campus often criticized for its political apathy, a sizeable
crowd of some fifteen hundred Emory students, faculty, and
administrators turned out for Classroom on the Quad
March 26, an all-University event planned in response to the
war in Iraq.


Serious about science: A junior at Emory College
majoring in neurobiology and behavior, with minors in both
physics and religion, Nelson Totah also is editor of Hybrid
Vigor, a scholarly journal of science at Emory; a licensed
emergency medical technician and member of the Federal Disaster
Medical Strike Team; and a tutor of second graders. But what
is perhaps most remarkable about him is the drive with which
he pursues his passionand his desire to share it with
others.


Water, water,
everywhere:About a dozen natural streams whisper
and gurgle through Emorys campus, just as they have
done since long before the University existed. Many of those
who hurry past these softly trickling rivulets each day dont
even notice theyre there.


Change of Heart:When
he left the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher
Education in South Africa in 1978, Emory law professor Johan
Van der Vyver did not imagine he would be returning a quarter-century
later to accept that institutions highest honor.


Mr. Emory retires:Emorys
reigning sports historian Clyde Partin 50C-51G
officially retired from his post as professor of health and
physical education on December 31, 2002. He has been a player
on the Emory sports scene, in one position or another, for
more than half a century.


Mind Your Manners: When Judith Martin
spoke at the Michael C. Carlos Museum in January on Star
Spangled Manners,
the host of the event, Professor of Anthropology Bradd Shore
reassured the murmuring crowd that Martin was not merely a
contemporary Emily Post or a walking rulebook.


Emory experiment destroyed aboard space shuttle Columbia:
Among
the millions of Americans who grieved the loss of the space
shuttle Columbia February 1 was Emory scientist Leland Chung,
who watched in shock as the shuttle broke apart in the sky
over Texas. Chung, professor of urology and a researcher at
the Winship Cancer Institute, mourned the tragedy all the
more deeply because the shuttle carried an experiment of his
own design: he was the first scientist to grow artificial
prostate cancer cells in space.


Young Emory alumni memorialized: Two
scholarship funds have been established in memory of Emory
alumni who died recently, Ryan Deon Cheung 98C and Harris
M. Silver 89C.